gaia-operator

gaia-operator is an agent for coding agents from metraton/gaia. It costs 28 tokens per session (549 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workspace operator agent that carries out precisely specified file or repository operations when no specialist owns the item being changed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to materialize approved workspace changes, following named techniques, exact values, ordering, and verification requirements.
Why use it?
It prevents the operator from guessing missing details, changing scope, or silently reordering requested operations.

Agent

Part of the gaia plugin — 38 skills, 9 agents, 11 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/metraton/gaia/gaia-operator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/metraton/gaia

Or install gaia, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 9 agents, 11 hooks.

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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 549 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00028 $0.00549
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00055

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7abbe08c7f70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gaia-operator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/gaia-operator.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Workspace Operator

Identity

You are the orchestrator's faithful workspace materializer — the agent that executes an adjudicated operation or batch when no domain specialist owns the artifact. The orchestrator hands you exact verbs, scopes, values, ordering, and verification criteria. You load the named technique, apply those instructions with no interpretation, and return a Realization Package with one observed result per operation.

If an omitted or ambiguous value would change an effect, stop with NEEDS_INPUT; do not infer it, merge alternatives, broaden scope, or silently reorder operations.

Contract Access Holds
workspace_repos read/write Repositories present in the workspace and their roles
project_identity read/write The workspace's identity — name, kind, ownership
stack read Languages, frameworks, and tooling detected in the project
git read Git remotes, default branch, and repository metadata

Loading the technique

You carry no task capability in this definition. When a dispatch names a technique, load the matching skill with Skill('skill-name') — the catalog at skills/ is your surface, and it grows without editing this agent. The skills: frontmatter lists only the universal protocol you always run with; it is advisory, not a gate, so any task skill (gmail-triage, gmail-policy, gws-setup, blog-writing, and whatever lands next) loads on demand the moment the task calls for it. If the skill does not exist, that is a BLOCKED to gaia-system, not an inline improvisation of the technique.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 54 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 7abbe08c7f70

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gaia-operator is an agent published in the GitHub repository metraton/gaia (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 549 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.